Programs

Individual ESC programs have different requirements. Most programs only accept applications from persons 21-30 years old. Many, but not all, programs require a college degree and U.S. citizenship. Please consult the individual program descriptions for more information. Click here for a geographic map of all our program locations. Click here for a program comparison chart.

Programs are listed in alphabetical order.

Program: Abraham Project
Location: Winston-Salem, NC
Description: The Abraham Project, in the heart of Winston-Salem, NC, offers a unique challenge to live a radical year. Living in community and working for the community, project members will work alongside local agencies to rebuild lives and hope. By living simply with others in community, project members will be challenged ... learn more
 
Director: Fr. Steve Rice



Director: Sarah Nolan
  Program: Abundant Table Farm Project
Location: Ventura County, CA
Description: The Abundant Table Farm Project (ATFP) is a young adult Christian community seeking a contemporary rhythm of life with a land based ministry in Ventura County. The goal of this internship is to connect with young adults who are attuned to the destructive disconnect between land and table in our culture. ATFP ... learn more


Program: All Saints’ Atlanta Project (ASAP)
Location: Atlanta, GA
Description: All Saints’ Atlanta Program is another means by which we seek to respond to God’s call to heal a broken world. ASAP is a year-long post-college internship program for young adults interested in issues of social justice and vocational discernment especially in an urban environment. Interns will work 35 hours a week ... learn more
 
Directors: Noelle York-Simmons, Elizabeth Shows Caffey



Director: Rev. Dr. Lora Walsh
  Program: Ark Fellows
Location: Fayetteville, AR
Description: Our world urgently needs sustainable ways of living on the earth, exercising power, and walking with God. The Ark Fellows program invites you to practice these ways of living, leading, and serving the neighbors who need us most. Why Northwest Arkansas? Even if the only Arkansans you know are Bill Clinton, ... learn more


Program: Bayou City Service Corps
Location: Houston, TX
Description: Bayou City Service Corps, located in Houston, Texas, exists to provide young adults the time and space needed to search for truth, work for social and economic justice, and be challenged to live deliberately. Why Houston? As a progressive, multicultural mecca in the vast state of Texas, Houston boasts a ... learn more
 
Directors: Nikki Blount, The Ven. Russ Oechsel



Directors: The Rev. Rebecca Crummey (Program Director), The Rev'd Rebecca Jones (Diocese of Colorado Jubilee Coordinator)
  Program: Colorado Episcopal Service Corps - St. Columba House
Location: Denver, CO
Description: The Colorado Episcopal Service Corps program will run from August 15, 2013 through June 30, 2014 and offers its interns spiritual formation and simple living in community together with meaningful service in agencies and ministries throughout Denver, (in its first year) most of them Jubilee Ministries [link to Jubilee Ministries site]. ... learn more


Program: Creating for a Cause
Location: Milwaukee, WI
Description: The mission behind Creating for a Cause is understanding, action and vocation. Most opportunities for creative young post-grads are either self-directed, for profit or they are the friendly neighborhood barista. Our Program provides an alternative. Creatives trained in web development, design, social media, video/editing, photography or writing will be placed with Milwaukee ... learn more
 
Director: Amy Clark



Director: David Baumgart Turner
  Program: Creation Care at Camp Mokule‘ia
Location: Waialua, HI
Description: Camp Mokule‘ia is a year-round camp owned by the Episcopal Diocese of Hawaii with a rich and varied setting on Oahu’s northwestern shore. Over 15,000 people every year enjoy our pristine setting with a variety of accommodations, a mile long beach, gentle swimming, a shoreline forest, and an emergent sustainably ... learn more


Program: Deaconess Anne House in Urban St. Louis
Location: St. Louis, MO
Description: Located in an historic and culturally diverse up-and-coming neighborhood in urban St. Louis Missouri, Deaconess Anne House invites passionate women and men to take part in a holy adventure of Christian service and intentional community. In many respects, Deaconess Anne House is a school of disciples learning the complexities of following ... learn more
 
Director: The Rev’d Jon Stratton



Director: Tom Poyner
  Program: DioCal Interns
Location: San Francisco, CA
Description: Why come to California? Let’s not kid ourselves, we know that the San Francisco Bay Area is one of the most exciting urban environments in the country and location is a big draw. Participants have convenient access to Berkeley, Oakland (chosen #5 of places to see in 2012 by ... learn more


Program: Earthkeepers
Location: Sewanee, TN
Description: Earthkeepers (Sewanee) provides young adults the opportunity to develop practical and spiritual skills for creating sustainable communities through an emphasis in Sacramental, Organic, Intentional, Living (SOIL). Earthkeepers focuses on land based regeneration projects, new agrarian understandings of agriculture, and faith-farm-food initiatives through the Benedictine inspired practice of Ora et labora (prayer ... learn more
 
Director: Michael Thompson



Director: Suzanne Edwards-Acton
  Program: Episcopal Urban Intern Program
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Description: The Episcopal Urban Intern Program (EUIP), Los Angeles, is a year-long service learning project of the Jubilee Consortium, a group of inner city Episcopal parishes in LA working together to effect meaningful social change within their communities. Each fall, EUIP gathers a new class of young adults from across the United ... learn more


Program: ESC-MD in Baltimore (Gilead House)
Location: Baltimore, MD
Description: "When we stand by a neighborhood, welcome the persons who find no hospitality elsewhere and dare to dream great things, we as the church offer the gifts of will and of hope." Bishop John L Rabb. The Episcopal Service Corps-Maryland was formed in part to answer Bishop Rabb’s challenge for the ... learn more
 
Director: Rev. Canon Jan Hamill



Director: The Rev. Bridget McManus
  Program: Grace House
Location: Syracuse, NY
Description: Grace House offers an experience of vocational discernment, service, spiritual reflection, and community living in connection with historic Grace Church in Syracuse, NY. Grace House also partners with the Episcopal Campus Ministry at Syracuse University, a large, diverse research institution located in the center of the city. Grace House ... learn more


Program: Grace-on-the-Hill
Location: Richmond, VA
Description: Grace-on-the-Hill invites young adults to live in community while engaging deeply in the social, relational, economic and ecological regeneration of the Oregon Hill neighborhood and the wider community of Richmond, VA. GOTH residents live together in intentional Christian community following a Rule of Life grounded in common prayer and meals, ... learn more
 
Directors: The Rev. Abbott Bailey, Paris Ball



Directors: Tricia Lindley (Director), Susan Gladin (Intern Formation)
  Program: Johnson Intern Program
Location: Chapel Hill, NC
Description: The Johnson Intern Program, based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina blends social ministry, intellectual inquiry, and intentional community into a year that enables young adults to explore their spiritual lives within the context of intentional living. Each year eight young adult men and women are recruited for an eleven-month hands-on ... learn more


Program: Julian Year
Location: Chicago, IL
Description: The Julian Year offers young adults the time and the space to live by faith and work for justice in the city of Chicago.

Inspired by the 14th-century mystic Julian of Norwich who lived in a small dwelling attached to a church, The Julian Year can provide some “breathing room” as you ... learn more
 
Director: Scott Lybrand



Director: The Rev. Jocelynn Hughes
  Program: LEVN – the Lutheran Episcopal Volunteer Network
Location: Davis, CA
Description: LEVN: Transform your community. Transform your life. Leaven is an agent of change, causing bread to rise, and substances to transform. During your LEVN year, you will be leaven in the community. Watch how the experience impacts and changes your life and the world around you! ... learn more


Program: Life Together Community
Location: Boston, MA
Description: “If you want to go quickly, go alone; if you want to go far, go together.” - African Proverb Overview The Life Together Community is inspired by the ancient prophet Micah’s call to “do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly.” We are a Christian community of artists, activists, scholars, and ministers committed to both ... learn more
 
Directors: Rev. Arrington Chambliss, Jason Long



Director: Amelia Arthur
  Program: Living with Purpose: Louisiana
Location: New Orleans and Baton Rouge, LA
Description: The purpose of this program, hosted by Episcopal Community Services of Louisiana (ECSLA) is to equip young adults to be effective leaders in our complex world, through hands-on service, community building, and spiritual formation. The Living With Purpose Fellowship is one program containing two houses, one in Baton Rouge and one ... learn more


Program: New Seeds
Location: Louisville, KY
Description: New Seeds is a residential internship program for young adults based at Christ Church Episcopal Cathedral in Louisville, KY. Our interns will share a simple life together grounded in prayer and service as they seek to discern God's calling in their lives. The interns will serve in local social ... learn more
 
Director: The Rev. Cn. Amy Real Coultas



Directors: Sarah Nazimova-Baum, Stephanie Shockley
  Program: New York Intern Program
Location: New York, NY
Description: New York Intern Program is an opportunity for young adults to commit to a year of service, discernment, social justice and intentional community, based in two diverse Harlem church communities. Recent college graduates, ages 21-29, join NYIP from late August through mid-August of the following year, to provide services to people in ... learn more


Program: NEWARK ACTS
Location: Newark, NJ
Description: Beginning in the fall of 2010, The Diocese of Newark welcomed our first eight interns and three years later we have welcomed 25 young adults to be part of our program and diocese. NEWARK ACTS is a service-learning program for young adults that will emphasize social justice, community service, spiritual formation ... learn more
 
Directors: Rev. Deacon Erik Soldwedel (Program Director), Ms. Kaileen Alston (Youth Ministries Director)



Director: Jason Emerson
  Program: Resurrection House
Location: Omaha, NE
Description: Working 20 hours a week in Episcopal parish ministry, 10 hours in a local non-profit, and 10 hours spiritual and theological direction, interns discern what God is calling them to next in their lives. Emphasis is placed on exploring ordained ministry, but not to the exclusion of lay ministry. ... learn more


Program: Servant Year
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Description: Servant Year is a program of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania which invites young women and men (twenty to thirty years old) who have completed a BA, BS or MA degree in an accredited college or university, to explore urban ministry by carrying out a volunteer position within a partnering social ... learn more
 
Director: Matt Myers



Director: The Rev. R.C. Laird
  Program: SERVE- Seattle Episcopal Residential Volunteer Experience
Location: Seattle, WA
Description: More information coming soon. ... learn more


Program: Society of Saint John the Evangelist Monastic Internship Program
Location: Boston, MA
Description: The Brothers of the Society of Saint John the Evangelist (SSJE) offer internships for young men and women (ordinarily 21-34) at their monastery in Cambridge, MA. The monastery and Emery House, the Brothers’ retreat house in West Newbury, MA offer hospitality and sanctuary to people from all walks of life, many ... learn more
 
Director: Br. Mark Brown, SSJE



Director: Robert Hendrickson
  Program: St. Hilda's House
Location: New Haven, CT
Description: St. Hilda's House is a ten-month residential young adult discernment program devoted to spiritual formation and urban ministry while living in community. It is sponsored by Christ Church New Haven in partnership with Berkeley Divinity School at Yale University. Interns live at either the former rectory at Christ Church or ... learn more


Program: Sycamore House Service Corps
Location: Harrisburg, PA
Description: The Sycamore House, located in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, is founded on faith in Christ and commitment to a life of creative service. It exists for young adults who wish to explore what it means to live in an intentional community – building relationships with God, each other, their parish and their city. The ... learn more
 
Directors: Kathy Yorkievitz, Rev. Churchill Pinder



Director: Rev. Laura Bryant
  Program: The Road
Location: Atlanta, GA
Description: “There is no higher achievement in all the world than to be a person in community….This is the most creative and difficult work to which any of us will ever be called…We are to be builders of liberating communities that free love in us and free love in others.” ... learn more


Program: Trinity Cleveland Urban Service Corps
Location: Cleveland, OH
Description: The Trinity Cleveland Urban Service Corps is an experiential urban immersion service program for young adults that lasts eleven months. The program is designed to provide participants with time, space, and resources to discern their futures and grow spiritually and as leaders while living in sustainable Christian community and working in ... learn more
 
Director: The Rev. Sahra Harding, Curate



Director: The Revd Canon John Harmon
  Program: Trinity Volunteer Corps
Location: Washington, DC
Description: Trinity Volunteer Corps, located in Washington, DC, offers young adults an experience of living in intentional community while volunteering full-time in social service agencies that serve the poor. TVC provides the chance to call the nation’s capitol home, learn about poverty while assisting and advocating for poor people, increase multi-cultural experience ... learn more